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> almost always takes three tries

I think that's a pretty good rule to incorporate for many cases. After three effortful tries stop working on it no matter what. Learn from it and move on to the next one. I like to remind myself of pottery and quantity over quality [1].

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...



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